The Secret Chamber of the Card Game

Jiangzhou Prison.

The girls and the boss of Tianxiang Tower were collectively imprisoned. These girls are usually good at singing and dancing. Every day when they get up, they have to put on delicate makeup and beautiful dresses, and are held in the hands of rich children. crime?

As soon as they saw the cold and damp environment in the dungeon, everyone began to complain: "How can people sleep in such a dirty place?" Let us go!"

The yamen servant in charge of guarding them was impatient with the quarrel, and shouted angrily: "Shut up! There are assassins in your Tianxiang Tower, if the prince gets angry, all of you will be beheaded! How dare you pick and choose the dungeon, the dungeon This is not a place for you to sing and dance—be honest, you guys, let me in!"

The man was tall and tall, and his voice was like a bell. The girls turned pale with fright, and they all shut their mouths and dared not say much.

Ye Qi followed in the crowd silently.

A total of 12 people were arrested in Tianxianglou, four of them were locked in three cells.

The condition of the dungeon was indeed poor.There was no bed, the ground was covered with hay in a mess, and there were rats screaming from the corner. A fat rat passed by, causing several girls to panic and scream, and some people took off their shoes to beat the rat. The cell was in chaos.

Ye Qi sat in the corner, seriously thinking about what happened.

He had previously received S-level evaluations in Hearts 2, Hearts 3, and Hearts 4. After that, he followed Team Yu and Professor Xiao to solve the case in the 5/6/7 level, and learned a lot of reasoning knowledge. He is sure, The case in this secret room will not be as simple as the prince being assassinated.

At that time, the assassin escaped, and the prince caught everyone present in Tianxianglou in a fit of anger. What happened after that?Who will be the first to die?Just as he was thinking, he suddenly saw a yamen servant walking over and asked, "Which one is Miss Ye?"

Ye Qi stood up: "I am."

The yamen servant smiled and said, "Master Shao has come to see you."

When the girls around heard this, they looked at Ye Qi with envy and hatred.Everyone knows that Mr. Shao recently spent his wallet to raise Miss Ye. It was unexpected that Mr. Shao was so kind and righteous, and would come to see her when she was in prison!

Ye Qi's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he immediately followed the yamen servant out.

Outside the door, Shao Qingge was tall and tall, holding a folding fan in his hand, posing like a dandy, with a smile on his face, seeing Ye Qi coming out, he took out a piece of silver from his purse To the yamen servant: "It's time to work."

The yamen servant accepted the money happily, and said: "Talk slowly, you two! You can chat casually until your lord comes back, and I will guard the door for you."

Ye Qi: "..."

Spending money to buy the yamen servants, this kind of thing is really easy for Shao Qingge to do.

Shao Qingge smiled slightly, brought a food box and put it on the table: "You haven't eaten yet, have you? Have some snacks first."

Ye Qi did not eat dinner in preparation for the performance in the palace. He originally planned to go back to Tianxiang Building for supper after the performance, but he failed to eat supper and was instead arrested. He was so hungry that he saw the food. box, immediately opened the lid, grabbed the snacks and ate voraciously.

He had experienced the hardships of eating leaves to survive in the nightmare chamber, so he cherished food very much. When eating cakes, no crumbs would be left, and he held small pieces of pastries in his palm and ate them clean. That action is like a starving little squirrel.

Sitting on the haystack in the cell for a while, there were some grass clippings on his hair.

Seeing his hungry and embarrassed appearance, Shao Qingge's heart softened inexplicably, he couldn't help stretching out his hand, gently helped him take the weeds off his head, and joked: "Is it the first time you experience going to prison? Are the conditions bad?"

Ye Qi raised his head depressedly: "Are you still in the mood to joke? What if you wear skirts every day and pretend to be a woman, and you will be arrested and put in jail?"

Shao Qingge said softly: "Sounds aggrieved? How about I ask Master Yu to let you out?"

Ye Qi quickly calmed down: "Of course not, we can't release the case until the case is clear. It doesn't matter, anyway, it's the plot needs, and I was arranged in Tianxianglou. It must be that Tianxianglou has clues that I need to collect."

He was already full, wiped his hands, looked at Shao Qingge and said, "Did something happen to the Palace after we left?"

Shao Qingge nodded: "Miss is dead, she hanged herself."

Ye Qi was stunned for a moment, and immediately said: "It must not be suicide!"

Shao Qingge said: "The two of you, Yu and Xiao, are still investigating clues over there, and specifically told me to come and see you. In fact, everyone cares about you."

Ye Qi's heart warmed slightly, and he said: "I'm fine, I'm just sitting in prison for a few days. I don't know much about Tianxiang Tower. After thinking about it carefully, that assassin should have been in the show for a long time. It's in the sword dance team."

Shao Qingge asked with interest: "How do you know that she didn't kill one of the dancers and act as an impostor?"

"Impossible." Ye Qi shook his head and said, "I've been practicing dance with them for the past few days. The movements of this set of sword dance are very complicated. If I replace them temporarily, I can't perform it so completely. You just danced in the palace. I also saw that the synchronization of the five people is very high, every movement is uniform, and the beat of the rhythm is also very accurate, which cannot be achieved by temporary replacements."

"Well, that's true." Shao Qingge carefully recalled the dance just now, the five of them really cooperated with each other tacitly, their movements were very proficient, and the effect of the dance was quite amazing, obviously they practiced together for a long time.

"They kept their faces covered during rehearsal. In order to distinguish each one, I deliberately remembered their eyes and eyebrows, which matched the five people performing today. Therefore, the assassin must have planned it in advance, The identity of the dancer is mixed in the Tianxiang Building, this time I took advantage of the performance of the prince's birthday party, mixed in the dance team to assassinate the prince."

"..." This guy's serious analysis looks cute, Shao Qingge couldn't help smiling and said, "Any other clues?"

"I checked the remaining four girls just now. The escaped assassin was named Xueyan. According to Aunt Qing, she stayed in Tianxiang Tower for a year. It seems that she had been planning to assassinate the prince for a long time. Is it the same group of people who assassinated Master Yu?"

"Okay, I've made a note. I'll pass on all your words to Lord Yu." Shao Qingge wrote down all the clues Ye Qi provided.

In order to avoid suspicion if he left for too long, Shao Qingge asked Ye Qi to go back to rest first.

The yamen servant took Ye Qi to a cell alone. The cell was much cleaner than the place where other people lived, and it was covered with brand new bedding. Ye Qi widened his eyes: "Where did this bedding come from..."

The yamen servant smiled and said: "Young Master Shao asked us to prepare it for the girl. Young Master Shao really cares about the fragrance and cherishes jade. He is worried that Miss Ye will suffer in prison, so he specially asked the young man to bring a new bedding."

Ye Qi walked into the cell, feeling warm in his heart.

Although Shao Qingge's mouth was a little bit bad, he still had a good heart.

Evil money also worked in ancient times.

Ye Qi sighed in his heart, being rich is good, being in jail is different from others!

***

At the same time, Zhenjiang Palace.

After interrogating all the people in the palace, Xiao Lou sorted out the transcripts, and followed Yu Hanjiang to the deceased's residence to collect clues.

They found a lot of copied scriptures in the boudoir of the eldest lady, and there were some waste papers in the wastebasket, which were the waste manuscripts when the eldest lady wrote letters to the ninth princess. Most of them were only half written and then crumpled up and discarded. Obviously, when she wrote the letter, she was very conflicted in her heart, and she didn't think about the content of the letter, but revised it while writing.

The handwriting on the scrap manuscript was the same as that on the letter that the nine princesses handed to Yu Hanjiang, and the content of one page of the scrap manuscript was also similar to that on the final letter, except that a few words were wrongly written and altered. A full version has been rewritten.

These evidences can at least prove that the letter that the nine princesses handed over to Yu Hanjiang was indeed written by the eldest lady herself.

In addition, there is a brand new skirt in the Missy's house, which is neatly put aside. This should be the new dress Mrs. Yun prepared for her daughter at that time, and asked her to change it to attend the prince's dinner, but she did not change it. Still wearing the plain white clothes.

Unfortunately, the most important evidence was not found.

——Where did the poison that the eldest lady ate before her death come from?

Is it snacks, meals, or tea?

In ancient times, food could not be tested in a laboratory. Generally, silver needles were used for drug testing.Xiao Lou picked up the snacks on the table, tested the poison with a silver needle, and found that there was no toxin in several pastries; there was no toxin in the tea either.

Ask the personal maid serving the eldest lady, she said that the eldest lady went out at Shen time in the afternoon, and she was not allowed to follow, and she never came back after that, and she did not eat in the house before going out.

Shen time, that is, around 16 o'clock.

The time when the eldest lady died was 18 o'clock. No one knew what she saw and experienced after she went out.

Yu Hanjiang took Xiao Lou, Mo Xuemin and Long Sen to search for the residence of Fourth Miss Qi Yiwei.

Unexpectedly, the medicinal materials Liu Qiao mentioned were still there, and the paper package containing the medicinal materials had not even been opened.It seems that Miss Fourth did not use these herbs to concoct the poison?

The residences of the Second Miss, the Third Miss and the other wives were not particularly found.

It was almost early morning when the palace was searched.The entire palace was sealed off, and the wives and ladies gathered in the hall with different expressions. Yu Hanjiang searched everything he needed to search and asked what he needed to ask, so he bid farewell to the prince because he couldn't continue to disturb him.

The prince personally sent them to the door and told him to solve the case as soon as possible.Yu Hanjiang promised that he would do his best.

Long Sen and Qu Wanyue stayed in the palace, while Yu Hanjiang took Xiao Lou and Mo Xuemin back to the magistrate's yamen.

Shao Qingge and Liu Qiao were waiting for them there. Seeing the two of them coming back, Shao Qingge immediately stepped forward and asked, "How is it? Does the murderer have any clues?" As a heart slag, he is used to lying down and winning in the heart chamber. .Based on what he knew about Yu and Xiao, the two of them came back so late, they probably turned the palace upside down and didn't miss any clues.

However, to Shao Qingge's surprise, Yu Hanjiang's face was not confident, but confused. He frowned slightly and said, "There are many clues, and they are very messy. At present, the murderer cannot be identified."

Mo Xuemin couldn't help being stunned when he heard this: "Isn't the murderer Lin Shaobo who escaped?" Liu Qiao also asked curiously: "Didn't Lin Shaobo and Miss Fourth conspire to do it?"

Lin Shaobo was the most suspected of all the analysis in the palace just now?

Yu Hanjiang said in a low voice: "It's not that simple. Miss Fourth's medicinal ingredients are not missing, and she didn't make the poison. At present, I can't find the medicine that poisoned the eldest lady, so I can't draw conclusions lightly."

He winked at his teammates and took them to the cell to see Ye Qi.

Ye Qi was locked in a cell alone. The little guy was sleeping under the quilt, with one white ear exposed, and his whole body was curled up like a vigilant animal.

Xiao Lou saw the quilt covering him and couldn't help wondering: "Where did you get the quilt?"

Shao Qingge said with a smile: "I asked someone to prepare it. We can't let Miss Ye sleep in this messy haystack."

Seeing Ye Qi shrunk into a ball, Xiao Lou couldn't help feeling distressed and said: "I really wronged him this time. The floor of the cell is damp and cold, and now it's autumn again. It must be very uncomfortable to sleep on the floor like this."

Ye Qi was awakened by the noise, and when he woke up and saw everyone, he immediately ran over and said, "You are back, how is the case?"

Yu Hanjiang said: "The case is relatively complicated. The two cases should be related, but we can't find a connection point yet. Your testimony, Mr. Shao, has already told us, what does the assassin named Xueyan look like, can you draw it?" ?"

Ye Qi thought about it carefully, and said: "I haven't studied art, so I can't draw it, but I have specially memorized her eyes and eyebrow shape. If I see her again, I will definitely recognize her."

The other party covered his face, and it was difficult to find someone just by painting eyebrows and eyes. It seemed that Ye Qi could only recognize him.

Yu Hanjiang said: "It's very late, you should rest first, I will let Mr. Shao inform you if there are any clues. Before the case is solved, everyone in Tianxiang Tower cannot be released. If you are wronged, you will stay in the dungeon first. We will investigate this case as soon as possible.”

Ye Qi nodded, smiling brightly: "It's okay, I can sleep anywhere."

Shao Qingge remembered Xiao Lou's saying that the ground was damp and cold, so he said, "The quilt given to you is very big, you can spread half of it and cover half, so that the ground will not be cold, I will ask the yamen servant to get you a brazier later , don’t catch a cold.”

Ye Qi jokingly said, "Thank you, the patron's father."

Shao Qingge chuckled softly: "You're welcome, this is what a benefactor should do."

Sure enough, Shao Qingge knew how to do things, and secretly stuffed scraps of silver for the prison guards. A brazier was soon brought to Ye Qi's cell. Miss Ye enjoyed the treatment of a "VIP cell".